A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

You will hear from a science teacher, a social studies teacher, and an art teacher as each provides her take on how the Common Core and 21st Century learning goals affect what goes on in the classroom. Gather 2 documents which demonstrate the systematic nature of the Nazi strategy that marginalized this group of people.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The theory, which has been documented in a small number of laboratory experiments , is that the more students already know about a topic, the better they can understand a passage about it. For example, a passage on farming might make more sense if you know something about how plants grow.

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NCHE

JUNE 25, 2023

The social studies standards focused on African American history, recently approved by the Florida Board of Education, sanitize historical acts of violence against Black Americans. The post NCHE Board of Directors Statement Regarding the Florida Social Studies Standards appeared first on ncheteach.org.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2011

Whenever I''m away from home but I want to get work done, I activate the app and continue typing up any documents. Mr. Jeff Fiscina wrote: I have downloaded many apps that assist with notetaking, document sharing, and organization. ThinkFree Office is an app for the Android tab that acts as a word processor.

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Geography High School Social Studies Research 275

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 6, 2010

Documents to Go : Edit/create/view MS Word and Excel files as well as view PDF, PowerPoint and iWork files. After sharing my excitment about the iPad with a social studies teacher today we decided to purchase two of these for the department in lieu of a laptop. Here are my additions: 15. Syncs with Dropbox!

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Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Secondary Social Studies Interventionist As any good teacher does, I often eavesdrop. During my fourteen years of eavesdropping, I’ve heard social studies teachers lament that they are “not reading teachers”. Why is background knowledge important in social studies? By Kydra Hubbard, Ed.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2011

To learn more about VoiceThread visit [link] Using the "New and Improved" Mac Lab in room 106, my graphics teacher (Walt Pevny) has been collaborating with the Social Studies Department by helping them create Facebook pages for historical figures. Milan''s students as they collected their information and stored it in a Google Document.

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Social Studies High School History Teaching 195

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Many experiments have documented the power of writing outside of English classes but others haven’t found it to be so beneficial. Learning gains from writing were nearly identical in math, science and social studies. The intent here isn’t to boost writing skills but rather math, science and social studies content knowledge.

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Social Studies Tradition High School Research 145

Ashleigh's Education Journey

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A Social Studies Interactive Notebook is a great way to engage students and to help students focus as they organize social studies content and/or take guided notes. One of the great things about this social studies interactive notebook is that you can adapt it to meet the needs of your classroom.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

If you want to dive deeper, download our free eBook, Rethinking Literacy in K-5 Classrooms: How Social Studies and Science Drive Academic Success. ” Find out how schools can effectively integrate social studies and science into literacy instruction.

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Social Studies Critical Thinking Psychology Research 52

Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

AP Government Foundational Documents Students will love this review! It is a two-page review sheet on the foundational document for the AP US Government and Politics exam. Additionally, there are review documents for Federalist papers. Add to cart AP Government Foundational Documents $ 2.00

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Government US Government Middle School Social Studies 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

And right now, elementary schools spend very little time teaching social studies, despite its demonstrated literacy benefits and record of improving civics knowledge, skills and dispositions. The downward spiral of waning patriotism and poor public knowledge of our founding documents can be reversed. Former U.S.

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Civics K-12 Middle School High School 68

Passion for Social Studies

MARCH 31, 2024

However, the documents are editable to fit the needs and time of every classroom. Teachers can also edit documents to ensure the specifications meet their classroom needs. Add to cart The post Teaching the Judicial Branch appeared first on Passion for Social Studies. future law, and related cases.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Government US Government 130

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

MAY 24, 2022

Whatever version you decide to use, each one comes with a title page and four rule cards covering the following: Be Prepared Be Punctual Be Present Be Polite Around the World Skyline Posters If you are a world history or social studies teacher, these world skyline posters can help transform your walls or bulletin boards!

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Heritage Social Studies World History History 130

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

MARCH 14, 2023

For example, you might create categories of people, places, events, documents, and more! Are you looking for some new teaching ideas to engage your students in your social studies class? If so, you’ll love our FREE guide: 5 Creative Projects to Ignite Student Engagement in Your Social Studies Class.

American History 130

American History History Social Studies Teaching 130

Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. Between the students, administrators, parents, and the community, social studies teachers are feeling pressure from all directions. Another trend in social studies education is the emphasis on project-based learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Millian’s math students utilized an Avermedia document camera to display work. Here is a video we produced leading up to Digital Learning Day showcasing our Social Studies Department. Prior to Digital Learning Day an original vocal rap and live performance was recorded with a portable recorder and uploaded online.

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Library History Cultures Educational Technology 266

Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

In the five classrooms I’ve had in my career, I’ve discovered the must-haves that make my social studies classes run smoothly. While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. Things that go way beyond classroom décor.

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Yet in social studies or history, the idea of “experimenting” or seeking new explanations can sometimes seem unusual. But history is not merely the study of the past; it’s about understanding how we come to interpret the past. Historians gather, analyze, and interpret documents to construct narratives.

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History Social Studies History Education Economics 52

HistoryRewriter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

See Chapter 15 in the Social Studies Edition. Then, ask Google Bard or Chat GPT to retell the main ideas of the document in 10 rhyming couplets so an 8th grader will understand it. Then Google Bard helped me create a debriefing document or success chart. This sounds complicated, but here’s what it looks like.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Tradition History 130

HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Numerous studies demonstrate that student self-assessment is a major factor in academic improvement. Increased metacognition and problem-solving with advanced social studies concepts and academic vocabulary leads to deeper learning. You can also catch The Social Studies Show live or on-demand every month on EduProtocols Plus.

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Archiving Social Studies Tradition World History 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Kim, a reading specialist, and other researchers had developed two sets of multi-year lesson plans, one for science and one for social studies. The remaining 15 elementary schools in the district continued to teach their students as usual, still delivering some social studies and science instruction, but not these special lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Grade inflation struck all high school subjects, ACT found, but it was highest for math, followed by science, English, and social studies. Grades continued to rise in math and science even as grade inflation stabilized in English and social studies. points, while English and social studies rose by 0.22

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High School Social Studies Research Humanities 145

Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

These activities include: Sourcing documents Drag & drop timelines Analyzing primary and secondary sources Interpreting and inserting images Notetaking Comparing and contrasting topics 4. Engaging Activities - All of the same great activities from the old digital notebooks are back with some awesome updates to them as well.

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Social Studies Primary Sources World History Civics 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. 2nd grade social studies. Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. 3rd grade science. Curriculum. Curriculum. 6th grade science.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2019

Within these eight key concepts, teachers of science, math, language arts, social studies, and art have found intersections with what their students are expected to know and know how to do. The foundations of computational thinking are abstraction, decomposition, pattern recognition and testing and debugging.

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Learning Science Humanities 134

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

One report documented that U.S. Maybe you can do that in social studies. A study by researchers at the University of Southern California , released Aug. 15, 2024, documented widespread psychological distress among teenage girls and preteen boys since the pandemic. children are academically and that merits coverage.

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Tutoring Psychology Elementary School Research 145

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar.

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American History History Civics Political Science 98

ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. To what end?

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American History World History Social Studies History 134

Thrive in Grade Five

APRIL 20, 2019

Court documents do not explain the charges against him, but in a document dated prior to the accusation, Thomas Gage said that Dr. Toothaker saw two children who were ill and exhibiting “unwanted fits.” Primary source documents report that Bridget continued to proclaim her innocence up to the moment of her execution.

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Teaching Primary Sources History Social Studies 130

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. I taught the same topic to high school students in my women’s studies class 20 years later.

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Cultures Teaching Pedagogy Ancestry 138

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Little’s study in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program prompted him to think carefully about how the Constitution’s structure reflects the founders’ understanding of typical human behavior, or what they called “human nature.” Politics became more performative than constructive.

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Humanities Teaching American History Government 52

Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As we reboot Doing Social Studies, we’d love to introduce you to this month’s author, Nathan McAlister. Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. My goal, for this blog post is twofold. Let’s get started.

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Primary Sources Archiving Library American History 67

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

These shifts we have documented have resulted in barriers dissolving between districts and communities, district leaders engaging in shared leadership, teachers and parents working as collaborators to solve challenges and students co-creating learning experiences.

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Education Leadership Professional Development Tradition 116

Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

For the fall, district leaders are working with Dr. Hasan Jeffries, associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, to modify, update, and provide cultural relevance and accuracy for the Social Studies curriculum. The knowledge of these tenets will then be infused into other core content areas as appropriate.

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